mobile solutions for higher education institutions
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Thomas Sammer, Project Leader “Mobile Uni-App”, PhD Student & Research Associate@UniSGAAA/SWITCH InfoDay 2012, Bern, January 19th, 2012
Mobile Solutions for Higher Education Institutions
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Introduction
Some Advice on Implementing Mobile Solutions
Agenda
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Introduction
Some Advice on Implementing Mobile Solutions
Agenda
4Gartner 2010; Weiss, R. 2011; 148apps 2011; Warren, C. 2011; Musil, S. 2011; Meeker et al. 2010, 2009.
The mobile world in figures
2008 2014
139
770
Expected yearly smartphone
shipments in mil-lion units
Current (2011) Smartphone market penetration for Switzerland: 38.1 %
300,000 apps available on Apple App Store
> 100 million iPhone units at the present
> 10 billion downloads of iOS apps
More mobile Internet users than desktop Internet users in 2015
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Mobility affects several areas spare time
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Focus today: University servicesspare time
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@university@school
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Introduction
Some Advice on Implementing Mobile Solutions
Agenda
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Some useful tools / advice for implementing mobile solutions
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How to implement mobile solutions
Strategy
Business Process
Technology
One possibility for a starting point are the three layers of the St.Gallen Business Engineering Model
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How to implement mobile solutions
Top-Down Approach
Audience / Target Group?
Leading Questions
Strategy
Business Process
Technology
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Audience / Target groupD
iver
sity
of P
latfo
rms
Open Setting Fixed SettingTarget Setting
Equipment for Lectures or Labs
Ads for iOS
Campus App, LMS App
Students and Staff who will be equipped (B2E) iOS Users
Every User (Students and Staff) will bring / use their own device (BYOD)
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Overview on mobile platforms
App StoreAndroidMarket
App World Nokia Store / Ovi
Markt
Logo
Apple Google RIM NokiaBetreiber
Betriebs-systeme
10/ 2008 04/ 2009 05/ 2009Go live 07/ 2008
352,800 (10/2011)
43,000 (11/2011)
104,576 (9/2011)
Angebot(Anzahl Apps)
512,749 (10/2011)
hTC, Motorola, Samsung, LGund weitere
BlackberryNokia, Sony Ericsson und weitere
HardwareiPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Marketplace
Microsoft
10/ 2010
40,000 (11/2011)
Nokia, Samsung, hTCund weitere
App Catalog
Palm / HP
…
06/ 2009
7,062 (6/2011)
HP, Palm
Gartner Report: http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/07/windows-phone-beat-iphon/
Gartner: Windows Phone to beat iPhone by 2015 (thanks to Nokia).There will be at least 3 different platforms to serve.
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How to implement mobile solutions
Top-Down Approach
Audience / Target Group?
Leading Questions
Strategy
Content / Service?Business Process
Technology
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Content / Services
Service Interface Priority
LMS LMS
Campus Map Google Maps
People Directory LDAP
Timetables DB1
Public Transport SBB-Interface
Events Calendar RSS-Feed
Sports DB3
Library DB4
Student Dining PDFs
LMS-App
Campus-App
Depends on your vendorBlackBoard Mobile,
Moodle Mobile aso. are quick wins
Have to be developed from scratch or by
customizing frameworks, e.g. Kurogo Framework
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Bridging backends and frontends
DBRSS PDF Web-
service
Best Case
http://modolabs.com/framework.php
Middleware
BackendsFrontendsFrontendsM
iddleware
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How to implement mobile solutions
Top-Down Approach
Audience / Target Group?
Leading Questions
Strategy
Content / Service?Business Process
Platform / Technology?Technology
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Hardware: A trade-off?
Data Processing Capabilities
Mobility / always with / urgent use
Software
Keep hardware capabilities in mind for the decision of which functionality / service / content should get a mobile support.
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From Adobe InDesign to an iPad App
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Some Guidance
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4 ways to go
Div
ersi
ty o
f Bac
k-en
ds+
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Fixed Setting Open Setting
Native App with Middleware
(e.g. E-OSCE)
mFramework with
Middleware (e.g. Kurogo, Phone
Gap, Rhodes, ...)
InDesign 2 iOS App
Out of the Box-Solutions
(e.g. Blackboard Mobile, Study Blue, momo Mobile
Moodle)
mFramework
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Native appsD
iver
sity
of B
ack-
ends
+-
Fixed Setting Open Setting
Native App with Middleware
(e.g. E-OSCE)
mFramework with
Middleware (e.g. Kurogo, Phone
Gap, Rhodes, ...)
InDesign 2 iOS App
Out of the Box-Solutions
(e.g. Blackboard Mobile, Study Blue,
momo Mobile Moodle)
mFramework
http://tv.adobe.com/de/watch/digital-publishing-solution/multi-channel-publishing-mit-indesign-cs5-in-4-schritten-aufs-ipad
/http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign.html
Implement Native Apps; Simple Apps or Magazine Apps can be easiely created.
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Project E-OSCED
iver
sity
of B
ack-
ends
+-
Fixed Setting Open Setting
Native App with Middleware
(e.g. E-OSCE)
mFramework with
Middleware (e.g. Kurogo, Phone
Gap, Rhodes, ...)
InDesign 2 iOS App
Out of the Box-Solutions
(e.g. Blackboard Mobile, Study Blue,
momo Mobile Moodle)
mFramework
AAA/SWITCH Project E-OSCEVisit http://www.e-osce.ch/ for more Information
DB
DB
Data Processing
Capabilities
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Out of the box solutionsD
iver
sity
of B
ack-
ends
+-
Fixed Setting Open Setting
Native App with Middleware
(e.g. E-OSCE)
mFramework with
Middleware (e.g. Kurogo, Phone
Gap, Rhodes, ...)
InDesign 2 iOS App
http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/overview.aspx
Out of the Box-Solutions
(e.g. Blackboard Mobile, Study Blue,
momo Mobile Moodle)
mFramework
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HTML5 and mFramework for multi device supportD
iver
sity
of B
ack-
ends
+-
Fixed Setting Open Setting
Native App with Middleware
(e.g. E-OSCE)
mFramework with
Middleware (e.g. Kurogo, Phone
Gap, Rhodes, ...)
InDesign 2 iOS App
http://phonegap.com/
Out of the Box-Solutions
(e.g. Blackboard Mobile, Study Blue,
momo Mobile Moodle)
mFramework
openappmkt.comapps.ft.comFinancial Times dropped their native iOS app and use instead a HTML5 web app that is offline accessible.
Openappmkt.com is an app market based on HTML5 that offers a wide range of HTML5 apps. Most are offline useable.
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Middleware-based mFrameworksD
iver
sity
of B
ack-
ends
+-
Fixed Setting Open Setting
Native App with Middleware
(e.g. E-OSCE)
mFramework with
Middleware (e.g. Kurogo, Phone
Gap, Rhodes, ...)
InDesign 2 iOS App
Out of the Box-Solutions
(e.g. Blackboard Mobile, Study Blue,
momo Mobile Moodle)
mFramework
Other examples: http://m.mit.edu/about/ or http://m.harvard.edu/info/
For further information visit http://modolabs.com/framework.php
Kurogo Framework by Modo Labs
Used and recommended by app.unisg.ch
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Thank you!
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ContactMag. Thomas SammerUniversity of St. GallenMüller-Friedberg-Str. 8CH-9000 St. [email protected]
SupplementFurther information about the project is available on http://www.ccmb.ch
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